File for newspaper-clippings



. (No Model.)

- G.'W. SHERMAN.

' FILE FOR NEWSPAPER OLIPPINGS.

No. 514,244. Patented Feb. 6, 1 94.

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PATENT OFFICE.

PEARSALLS, NEW YORK.

FILE FOR NEWSPAPER-CLIPPINGS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 514,244, dated February 6, 1894 Applicationfiled October 17. 1893.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. SHERMAN, of Pearsalls, in the county of Queens and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Files for Newspaper- Olippings, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in files for newspaper clippings in which an outer envelope or protecting cover is provided with side flaps adapted to fold over and overlap one another to conceal the matter placed within the file and either with or without a series of fly-leaves inclosed therein for thepurpose of permanently attaching the clippings in place.

A practical embodiment of my invention is represented in the accompanying drawings, in Which- Figure 1 represents a face View of the file constructed in the preferred form. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal, transverse section. Fig. 3 shows the same with its side flaps unfolded, exposing the fly-leaves on the interior. Fig. 4 is a modified form in which the fly-leaves do not extend beyond the end of the envelope. Fig. 5 is a second modified form in which the tab at the end of the envelope or casing is omitted. Fig. 6 is a third modified form in which the fly-leaves are omitted altogether, and Fig. '7 is still another modified form in which the tab on the envelope is omitted and the fly-leaves do not extend beyond the end of the envelope.

The body portion of the envelope or casing is denoted by A,the inner flap at one side by a and the outer flap at the opposite side of the body by or. I prefer to fold the edges of the flaps inwardly as shown at a and a respectively, for the purpose of assisting in retaining the contentsin place and also to protect the edge of the material.

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the envelope or casing, at the foot, as represented at B for the purpose of placing thereon such memoranda as may be found expedient to call attention to the contents of the file. I find it convenient to put the general subject matter of the file on this extended tab at the foot and to" put the specific titles of the subject matter upon the endsof flyleaves extended from the top of the file as follows: The fly-leaves are denoted by O, 0, C &c. I have shown three of them but the number may be more or less than three as found expedient. I find it convenient to se- Serial No. 488,385. (No model.)

cure them at their ends to the interior of the file at its foot, leaving them otherwise free to be folded over. The fiy-leaves are intended to receive the paper clippings which for convenience may be pasted or otherwise secured to their opposite sides. The fly-l'eaf 0 next to the body or back of the cover is extended at its free end beyond the next succeeding fly-leaf, as shown at c, and the next succeeding flyleaf 0 is extended, as shown at o and so on, leaving a slight margin on each fly-leaf projecting beyond the next succeeding leaf in front of it and on the face of such projecting portion of the fiy-leaf may be placed a memorandum of the specific subject matter to which the paper clippings on that fiy-leaf refer. The arrangement is a very simple and inexpensive one and is found very convenient in practice as it provides for the systematic arrangement of subject matter gathered from various sources, so that it may be readily referred to whenever desired.

The several modified forms which I have represented in Figs. at, 5, 6 and 7 are those which would naturally occur to a person, in case they found for any particular reason it was sufficient to have the fly-leaves projecting without the tab at the foot of the cover for general classification or the tab at the bottom of the casing alone without the flyleaves projecting, or dispensing with the flyleaves altogether and packing the subject matter in the envelope, or employing fly-leaves without any projection at the bottom or top of the envelope, the subject matter being left to be discerned by opening the envelope.

What I claim is- The file for paper clippings, comprising the envelope or casing having a back portion and side flaps arranged to fold the one over the other in front of the back portion, a tab projected from the foot of the back of the envelope or casing and a series of fly leaves secured at the foot of the back of the file and projected at different distances beyond the top of the file, the said fly leaves being free to be turned down independently of one another to expose a succeeding fly leaf, substantially as set forth.

GEORGE W. SHERMAN.

Witnesses FREDK. HAYNES, GEORGE BARRY. 

